[Hidden-tech] Need adapter to download video content to MacBook Pro

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:35:53 -0400 Rich Roth <rzroth at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Deb,
> Have her talk to Dr. Sharon Roth in the Ed dept - that's my wife and she can arrange to 
> loan her
> our sony - which will probably play those tapes and does have a USB adapter.

There are two types of *digital* video tapes the older 8mm (Sony calls it
Digital8), and the newer 4mm tapes. The Digital8 are the same as Hi8 (analog
video). 8mm tapes are roughly the same size as standard audio cassettes. The
4mm are about the size of mini-cassettes. Sony's early Firewire camcorders
used Digital8 media and the newer ones use 4mm tapes. Both formats are
digital. Sony's Digital8 camcorders can play Hi8 tapes. Hi8 (older 8mm video
tapes) are analog video and digital audio. Sony's Digital8 camcorders can
digitize 'on-th-fly' Hi8 videos and feed the digital data out through the
firewire port.

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> BTW - given the age it is probably the same and those are really digital tapes
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> On 4/30/2013 11:58 AM, Deborah Chandler wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > My niece, a student at GCC, needs an adapter to download video content onto her MacBook 
> > Pro. The video camera is a Sony brand, about 10 years old, uses videotapes not digital, 
> > and uses firewire to download to a computer. The challenge is that the new MacBook Pro 
> > does not support firewire. I believe it is a USB port she needs to adapt to, maybe mini 
> > USB. (But I can clarify if someone may possibly have what she needs)
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> > A gift of the adaptor is ideal. A loan would be her next choice.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Deb
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